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Shiv Aroor

Summary

Shiv Aroor is an Indian journalist and writer. He is an editor and anchor at India Today. He is also a defence correspondent, having done conflict reporting from defence zones such as Kashmir, Sri Lanka and Libya.[1][2][3][4][5] He also runs a defence website called livefistdefence.com which he founded in 2007, which was a winner in the 2012 and 2013 DefenceIQ Blogging Awards in the category Regional Defence blog.[6][7] He is a post-graduate in international journalism from Cardiff University and a graduate from St Stephen's College, Delhi.[6][8] He wrote the fictional book, Operation Jinnah, in 2017.[6] In 2018 he co-authored India's Most Fearless and then the sequel in 2019. The first part sold over 40,000 copies.[9]

Shiv Aroor
Born (1980-09-25) 25 September 1980 (age 43)
NationalityIndian
EducationBA (Hon) English, MA International Journalism
Alma materCardiff University, St. Stephen's College, Delhi
OrganizationIndia Today

India's Most Fearless 3, co-authored with Rahul Singh was released in August 2022. This book was launched by the three service chiefs- Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, Admiral R Hari Kumar and General Manoj Pande at an event in New Delhi on 17 January 2023.[10][11] One of the chapters from the book about the Galwan battle of 2020 has been acquired to be made into a film by Apoorva Lakhia.[12]

He is the great-grandson of popular Kannada poet and scholar, Sri Panje Mangesh Rao.[13]

Books edit

Author

  • Operation Jinnah (2017). Juggernaut. ISBN 9789386228260

Co-Author

  • India's Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes (2018), Penguin. Co-authored with Rahul Singh. ISBN 9780143440444
  • India's Most Fearless 2: More Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice (2019), Penguin. Co-authored with Rahul Singh. ISBN 9780143443155
  • India's Most Fearless 3: New Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice (2022), Penguin,[14] Co-authored with Rahul Singh. ISBN 9780143451112

References edit

  1. ^ "Shiv Aroor - Hyderabad Literary Festival 2019". Hyderabad Literary Festival 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Shiv Aroor - Penguin India". Penguin India. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Shiv Aroor". India Today. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  4. ^ Malhotra, Shivya (8 June 2017). "Shiv Aroor, the man and his real loves". Newsd. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Shiv Aroor | Jaipur Literature Festival". Jaipur Literature Festival. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  6. ^ a b c Khan, Saif Ahmad (3 April 2017). "Shiv Aroor to scale up own website after relinquishing full-time role at India Today - Exchange4media". Exchange4Media. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  7. ^ Tanner, Samantha (20 June 2012). "And the winner is… Defence IQ Blogging Awards 2012 results announced". Defence IQ. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  8. ^ "CV of Shiv Aroor". shivaroor.tripod.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Book sequel to give exclusive account of Balakot airstrikes, surgical strikes". The Economic Times. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  10. ^ "'India's Most Fearless 3' launched by the three service chiefs". Times of India. 18 January 2023.
  11. ^ "India's Most Fearless 3: Service chiefs recall biggest challenges faced in career". Hindustan Times. 18 January 2023.
  12. ^ "Galwan battle 2020 to be made into a film as Apoorva Lakhia acquires rights to a chapter from India's Most Fearless 3". India Today. 25 April 2023.
  13. ^ "Panje Mangesh Rao". Kavishala.in.
  14. ^ "India's Most Fearless 3". Penguin India. August 2022.